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RE: Planet of the New Papers
It's also the language used in international football. (By football
of course I mean Association Football or what Americans call soccer.
I assume there _are_ no international matches in American "Football"
since no-one outside of the USA plays it.)
john hunt writes:
> There are, I believe, a number of Chinese languages with Mandarin the most
> used and this is undoubtedly the most used native language, but I think you
> will find that English is probably the most used language globally because
> all educated people in India speak English (that's about 800 million), which
> is why so many jobs are going there from the UK and US.
>
> The reason for this is India has about 15 local languages so if someone in
> one part of India wants to speak to someone in another part of India they
> have to use English. Yes it is a hangover of the colonial past (as is its
> use in the US) but the global use of English is but an extension of what
> happened in India.
>
> English is also the international language of the air and sea. It is also
> the language that any scientists from different parts of the world are most
> likely to have in common.
>
> We didn't make the world but we all have to live with it.
>
> Finally, English is the language used by participants in the DML. QED.
>